BIOGRAFIA

Who is Nicola Barghi

Nicola barghi is born in Tuscany, on 14^th February 1980.

From that day the music will accompany him, in costant way, in particular the one of the Beatles and of Paul McCartney of whom the father is always a great fan.

The real contact becomes at the age of 6 years when Andrea, his father buys a vertical piano Yamaha and trying, with less success, to play the scores of the Fab Four, is excellently replaced from Nicola, who gives a first proof of his innate talent, leaving his parents amazed. Encouraged to cultivate his capacities, continues the classical musical studies approaching Chopin, Beethoven and Bach. 

15th February 2004

Elfland

In his first studio

27th April 1998

A family friend, teacher of piano in the conservatory of Florence, advises him to continue the studies, but Nicola going to a period of changes and the piano covers with dust. For two years he follows the father, famous photographer, as assistant and they realize reportages in Germany, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. He discovers new worlds that train his character and sharpen his sensibility: in this period he can dedicate listening to the music and rediscovers The Beatles.

 When it seems that his future will be occupied from the photography, he meets a friend who studies piano and composition in the Conservatory of Fiesole who goads him into continuing to practise piano.

8th September 1998

Svezia

13th February 1998

With the Ovation

12th January 1999

At the Bass

His parents present him an electric guitar and a bass: Nicola doesn’t waste time and ventures upon these new instruments, pointing out his natural aptitude for the music. From 1998 he records his first songs on a digital recorder DMT8 with 8 tracks and while the time is passing takes shape a real professional digital studio recording in a part of his farmhouse in the National Park of the Casentino Forests, dipped in the tuscan nature. In this world apart renamed Elfland he composes his first songs discovering the natural inclination to the English Pop/Rock. He improves his knowledge of English language and technically his voice with the Maestro Lorenzo Donati, conductor of the choir of Arezzo and the Soprano Gaia Matteini (future interpreter of his song Weeping On A Willow).

January 1999

At the Piano

Nicola and Gaia Matteini

June 2000

8th January 1999

1st May 1999

Elfland

Nicola tries to create a group, but his wish of proposing his music rather then covers isn’t shared by his fellows of the moment, so he is compelled to return in studio where he learns to play the drums and composes his first 8 songs that will give life to Float Up Stream, his first album. With his father’s help (his “button presser technician”) he completely and freely dedicates to the ideation of his works and applies himself to the importance of the silence and of the loneliness as creative choice.

 He composes classical piece as Dipper, andante for three instruments and Fantasia In Dissonanza for strings quartet, performed by the students of the Conservatory of Fiesole.

...and then...